Introduction : why existentialism and film?
Dreams, illusions and will in Walking life and Studies in pessimism
Egoism in Max Stirner's The ego and his own and in Hud
Kierkegaard and Bergman on faith and despair
Howard Rourke as Nietzschean overman in The fountainhead
Being-towards-death in Blade runner : angst, authenticity and care
Heidegger's poetics and the truth of war in The thin red line
Absurdity and suicide in Leaving Las Vegas and The myth of Sisyphus
Rebellion and murder in Missing and Camus's The rebel
Sartrean romantic pessimism in Husbands and wives
Sartre and the justice of violent rebellion in Michael Collins
De Beauvoir's fight against gender stereotypes and Revolutionary road
Foucault's Madness and civilization and One flew over the cuckoo's nest
Afterword : existential philosophies and the movies that embody them.
